#EOFF2021 Official Selections Eastern Oregon Film Festival will be celebrating its twelfth year of independent film and music programming in and from La Grande, Oregon on October 21-23, 2021. This year’s submission process saw a record number of submissions, of which 52 films were selected for exhibition. Filmmakers whose work was selected are invited to […]
“We are proud to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2019! Through conversation with members, artists, and the community, as well as some good ol’ fashioned eavesdropping, we have once again done our best to determine those films that resonated the most in La Grande. Thanks again to everyone for making YEAR TEN a success!” — Ian […]
View a list of all short film selections for #EOFF2019.
dir. Milena Pastreich
2019, USA, 81:00, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Jesse Alk
2019, USA, 76:57, Nonfiction
dir. Andrew Hevia
2019, USA, 01:08:32, Nonfiction
*Editor in Attendance
dir. Taryn Southern, Elena Gaby
2019, USA, 90:00, Nonfiction
* Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude
2018, USA, 92:00, Nonfiction
dir. Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer
2018, USA, 85:00, Fiction
dir. Aaron Zeghers & Lewis Bennett
2019, USA, 50:28, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Lara Jean Gallagher
2019, USA, 86:00, Fiction
dir. Greg Emetaz
2019, USA, 90:00, Fiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
dir. Gavin Baird
2019, Canada, 63:24 mins, Fiction
*World Premiere * Filmmaker in Attendance
#EOFF2018 (Un)official Awards “Once again, it brings us great pleasure to announce the ‘winners’ of #EOFF2018! The selections here have been determined through an informal process that gauged audience response, general interest, laughter, word of mouth and late night conversations. We have done our best to determine which films resonated the most with the people […]
2018 Online Program In keeping with tradition and growing our mission to provide access to independent film outside of The Grande Ronde Valley, Eastern Oregon Film Festival as teamed with Filmmaker Magazine to provide online viewing access for a grip of special viewing opportunities. The screenings will be available on Filmmaker’s website during our ninth […]
Official short film selections for #EOFF2018! An incredible array of diverse and creative content and subjects that hint and haunt in the best of ways.
dir. Jim Cummings
2018, USA, 91:34 mins, Fiction
dir. Skye Fitzgerald
2018, USA, 83:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Chloé Zhao
2017, USA, 104 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
dir. Ann Lupo
2018, USA, 95:32 mins, Fiction & Nonfiction
dir. Laura Nix
2018, USA, 87 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Morrisa Maltz
2018, USA, 52 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Richard Miron
2018, USA, 92:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Bridey Elliot
2018, USA, 80:00 mins, Fiction
dir. Matthieu Ritz
2018, Canada, 77:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Erik Bloomquist 2018, USA, 95 mins, Fiction
dir. Penny Lane
2018, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
dir. Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
2017, USA, 71:00 mins, Nonfiction
EASTERN OREGON FILM FESTIVAL Official Selections for the NINTH ANNUAL — #EOFF2018. Eastern Oregon Film Festival is proud to announce its Official Selections for the 2018 Festival. An intimate gathering nestled in downtown La Grande OR, #EOFF2018 will feature film screenings, special events, and live music at The Granada Theatre and our own creative space, hq, as well as […]
Online Selections will stream exclusively at Filmmaker Magazine on October 21 & 22 starting at 9am EST. SPIDER VEINS (dir. Frank Mosley) 2016 / USA / 20min / Experimental Short Synopsis Two women reunite in a quiet neighborhood before a party begins. But by turns mysterious and shocking, the film’s narrative begins to unravel even […]
SHH… ITS A SECRET. Come join filmmaker Cambria Matlow and check out a couple top-secret screenings at The Stage Door Theatre — Saturday,October 22 at 3:30pm. XXXX XXXX (dir. Joe Nankin) 2016 / USA / 15 mins / Narrative Short A young Mennonite woman harbors a secret romance on the eve of her baptism. Engulfed by questions […]
Abandoned Generations (dir. Linda Fenstermaker) A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, Abandoned Generations explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance that modern society has from the earth and how that relationship informs daily life. Balada […]
Dir. Jeremy Teicher, Alexi Pappas
2016, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Ian McCluskey
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Julia Pesce
2015, Argentina, 63min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Nathan Silver and Mike Ott
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Benjamin R. Davis, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Jay Jadick, Dane Mainella
2015, USA, 87min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Christopher LaMarca
2016, USA, 74min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil
2016, USA, 75min, Documentary Feature
Dir. Kat Hunt
2016, USA, 50min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sam Marine & Michael Borowiec
2016, USA, 95min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall
2015, USA, 83min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Bernardo Britto
2016, USA, 87min, English, Spanish, Arabic, Comedy Feature
Dir. Daniel Martinico
2016, USA, 79min, Narrative Feature
Dir. Sophia Takal
2016, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS (dir. Sam Kuhn) Technical Info 2014 / USA / 15min / Experimental Short Synopsis A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated ____. Director Bio Sam Kuhn is the creator of […]
Short films precede each feature block.
dir. Scott Cummings
2014, USA, 30min, Experimental Short
dir. Guy Reid
2015, UK+USA, 85min, Documentary Feature
dir. Sara Dosa
2015, USA, 80min, Documentary Feature
dir. Farzad Sangari
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
dir. Ross Bros
2015, USA, 93min, Documentary Feature (English subtitles)
dir. Eugene Kotlyrenko
2015, USA, 78min, Narrative Feature
dir. Evgeny Ruman
2015, Israel, 92min, Narrative Feature (Hebrew, with English Subtitles)
dir. Fredrik Geraten
2015, Sweden, 91min, Documentary Feature
dir. Amanda Wilder
2014, USA, 89min, Documentary Feature
dir. Mike Ott
2014, USA, 85min, Narrative Feature
dir. Caleb Johnson
2014, USA, 62min, Narrative Feature
dir. Alison Bagnall
2015, USA, 86min, Narrative Feature
View a curated collection of VINE videos by filmmaker Kentucker Audley. CURATOR’S STATEMENT Thanks to EOFF for asking me to curate some of my favorite Vines. Below are 16 vids from 10 accounts which range from hyper-composed to completely off-the-cuff. Indie filmmakers mixed with ascending Vine celebrities mixed with random teenagers. For better or worse, attention […]
Directed by Zach Weintraub [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (85min / Online Premiere) [/box] Justine left to sit quietly by and observe the early signs of her own deteriorating relationship. SYNOPSIS Justine, a recent college graduate turned retail employee, lives and works in a nameless city. The film begins when her boyfriend, Zach, […]
Directed, edited, photographed, produced by Ian Clark [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Experimental Feature 67min [/box] Synopsis An experimental self-portrait, MMXIII explores phenomenological subtlety, intersections of construct and verité, and the ways in which technology, landscape, and beauty coalesce. Here, an artist’s reflexive gestures investigate moving images and the nature of image construction, blurring the […]
Directed, Edited, Photographed, Produced by Nandan Rao [box]FEB. 20, 9PM – FEB. 23, 11:59PM Narrative Feature (68 min) [/box] Synopsis “Our boys, when they arrive at years of maturity and can take earn of a wife, should get married…While I do not make the remark to apply to individual cases, I am firmly of the opinion that a […]
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the official short film selections for #EOFF2014. These powerful short works will preface the 2014 feature selections.
Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon [box] Interactive documentary. 30 short films. 4 hours total. Entire video collection >> https://vimeo.com/hollowdocumentary/videos Website: http://www.hollowdocumentary.com [/box] Hollow is an interactive documentary and community participatory project that examines the future of rural America through the eyes and voices of those living in McDowell County, W.Va. Hollow combines video portraits, data visualizations, photography, […]
Only The Young encapsulates the best of documentary film with its sincerity but is shot with the beautiful still aesthetic of a narrative film. This coming of age documentary is scored with soul music which makes it unlike any other documentary film.
I’m ready to file ONLY THE YOUNG in the all-time coming of age canon.
– Hammer & Nail
The International Sign for Choking depicts the day-to-day encounters of Josh, a would-be expatriate from the US living in Buenos Aires for the second time. While his primary purpose seems to be the production of a vaguely defined video project, he devotes more of his time to tracking down a mysteriously absent ex-girlfriend. Frustrated by continual failure, Josh finds himself the perpetrator of a series of small yet uncharacteristic acts of deceit that ultimately place him in a low-key love triangle alongside Anna, his fellow N. American housemate, and Roger, a local musician.
The sensitively imagined story of a child soldier in Africa makes War Witch a genre benchmark and a breakout work for writer-director Kim Nguyen.”
– The Hollywood Reporter
*Oregon Premiere Director Nandan Rao Rao has created a film that moves in small steps. Viewers are given little in terms of plot, but are richly rewarded by thoughtful and charming characters, confident cinematography and the use of a stunningly beautiful location. – Northwest Film Forum Synopsis Twentysomething J. and two of his close friends are […]
A sequel to Eytan Fox’s breakthrough gay story of love and loss on the front lines, Yossi & Jagger(2002), this tender new drama follows Yossi, now a doctor, who turns the corner on the enduring pain of grief. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.”
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system?
You’ve just arrived home after a bad day. You’re broke and lonely, even though you live in the biggest and busiest city in America. You do, however, have one cause for mild optimism: you seem to have captured the attention of an intriguing young lady. You’ve rushed home to clean your apartment before she comes over. In your haste, you see that you’ve missed a call. There’s a voice mail; she tells you that she won’t be seeing you tonight.
Clay, Michael and Andrew are fascinated by a yearbook from Chico High’s class of 1990 that they discover at a Value Village. Intrigued by the cryptic word “Caduceus” emblazoned across the cover, and by the countless sweet mullets and dream girls inside, the three friends lock onto one particular student: feather-banged mystery man Timothy Truelove.
Cinema Six resembles a movie theater-set version of “Office Space” with the same kind of raunchy humor and quarter-to-mid-life ennui.”
“Lead actor John Merriman… handles comedy and drama with equal ease and the whole cast delivers with a fair share of absurd comedic moments.”
Two children, a homemade star chart, a cyclops, a giant and a time machine.
a gentle treat for McAbee enthusiasts and a mildly curious study of juvenile behavior for everyone else, which is certainly enough to satisfy this fan.”
– Eric Kohn (Indiewire)
A struggling actor spirals ever downward during the grueling process of trying to find steady work.
A riveting portrait of an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown — or, quite possibly, something worse… Armstrong [gives] a rigorously controlled performance that suggests the human equivalent of a ticking time bomb.” – Joe Leydon, Variety
a love story in two takes
A love story shot in two single, continuous 40 minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second over a sunrise. Sasha has been in love with Mia for years.
Eastern Oregon Film Festival is pleased to announce the following short films for inclusion in this year’s event. These powerful short stories will preface each of EOFF2013 feature selections. From current Sundance selections to world premiere, from local and regional, national and international the short program at this year’s event is powerful. Screening times and venues will […]
Eastern Oregon Film Festival announces the official 2011 short film selection. Each feature film for this year’s festival will be preceded by one of these great short films.
Feature Documentary
TRT: 85 min. | U.S.A. | color
A film by JON FOY.
Awards: 2011 Sundance Director’s Award: Documentary
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
Narrative Feature
TRT: 72 min.| U.S.A. | color
Written and Directed by Sophia Takal
Awards: SXSW / Chicken & Egg Emergent Woman Director Award
An intimate friendship between two women dissolves as they are drawn into an irrational, destructive spiral of jealousy and paranoid fantasy in this haunting examination of the female psyche.
Narrative Feature
TRT: 113min | Bosnia | color
A film by Danis Tanovic
*In Bosnian with English Subtitles
Official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. The communists have fallen from power and Divko Buntic returns to the small town where he grew up to reclaim his family home. After a 20-year exile in Germany. Divko arrives in his flashy red Mercedes with sexy young girlfriend Azra, lucky black cat Bonny and …
Feature Documentary
TRT: 113min | USA | color
Director: Bill Haney
*A panel discussion hosted by Oregon Rural Action will follow the screening.
In the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so the longer it is waged. It is a battle over
protecting our health and environment from the destructive power of Big Coal.
Documentary Feature — West Coast Premiere
TRT 74 minute | United States | HD
Director: Tristan Patterson
Awards: Best Documentary Feature, SXSW 2011, Best Cinematography, SXSW 2011, Best International Feature, Hot Docs 2011
Drag City in association with Killer Films presents the transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty.
Narrative Feature
A Film by Ian Clark
TRT 64 Min | USA | Color
Jason is a small-town slacker living with his mom. Content with idle days and easy livin’, his forgetful nature creates tension at home so he sets off with his pals to try his hand at redemption.
Narrative Feature — West Coast Premiere
TRT: 77 minute | United States | Color
Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Alternatingly quiet and delirious, always desperate, Bad Fever is a witness to one man’s broken American Dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand.
Narrative Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
A Film by Dustin Travis Swartz
TRT 95 Min | USA | Color
Bob Rockefeller has never been loved, by anyone, ever. He’s a sad sack who shovels shit for a living. Life has been anything but extraordinary but that’s about to change. During a routine prostate exam, Bob learns he has only 8.5 days to live. 8.5 days to find happiness. 8.5 days to find true love. 8.5 days to find a home for his guinea pigs. 8.5 days to make up for 43 years of living a life that totally sucks.
Feature Documentary
A Film by Victor Köhler and David Dworsky
TRT 80 minute | United States | Color
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
